Assessing Brazilian educational inequalities

This paper provides an evaluation of schooling inequality in Brazil using different indicators such as the Education Gini coefficient, the Education Standard Deviation and the Average number of Years of Schooling. We draw up a statistical description of Brazilian human capital dispersion in time ove...

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Main Author: Benoit Lorel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getúlio Vargas 2008-03-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Economia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71402008000100002